8-year-old donates own toys, clothes to friend in need

1:02 AM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Rayna Spergin, 7, plays with her iPad as Apple Madden, 8, and Heather Madden describe Apple's reaction when she heard about the fire that destroyed her friend Rayna's home. Apple donated toys and clothes from her bedroom to her playmate.

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Heather Madden can hardly get her daughter, Apple, to clean her room. So when the 8-year-old began sorting her toys and clothes earlier this week, tears began to fill her mother's eyes.

It wasn't because Apple was cleaning her room, but because she was deciding which of her items she could part with, as she was determined to donate them to her friend in need.

Apple's longtime friend and playmate Rayna Spergin, 7, and her family were displaced from their Rose Hill Avenue home Feb. 11 after an early morning fire. The home took heavy damage and the family lost most of their belongings, including ...